August beauty boxes

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Welp! This should be the last month in which I detail 3 beauty boxes, because I have canceled Ipsy. It's slightly too bad, because they've been doing all right the past couple of months, but overall it's still the one I look forward to the least, and I really don't need 3 subscriptions. I probably don't even need 2, but right now I wouldn't be able to choose between Birchbox or Sephora Play.

Birchbox

- Acure Organics Day Cream
- GLAMGLOW THIRSTYMUD Hydrating Treatment
- Marcelle City Multi-Protection Tinted Cream, SPF 25
- Oribe Gold Lust Dry Shampoo
- Stila Cosmetics Stay All Day Liquid Lipstick in Perla

Overall thoughts: Decent box this month. The Oribe product was my sample choice. The Stila lipstick is a really pretty color, though I think I'd prefer it as a nail polish rather than a lipstick. The other stuff is kind of meh. I'm a little sick of GLAMGLOW, honestly.


Ipsy

- A TRUE Spring Green Tea Watery Calming Cream
- Lancome Monsieur Big mascara
- DERMA E Vitamin C Concentrated Serum
- Seraphine Botanicals Liquid Coal Waterproof Liquid Liner in Coal
- ipsy blending brush

Overall thoughts: Really, another fucking brush, after I specified that I didn't want to get brushes anymore? This is why I had to cancel you, Ipsy. That and the goddamn mascara. Also how many liquid liners does a person need? LEARN ABOUT VARIETY.


Sephora Play!

- beautyblender micro.mini
- Too Faced Mascara Melt Off Cleansing Oil
- Kat Von D Lock-It Concealer Creme in #11
- Sol de Janeiro Brazilian Bum Bum Cream
- Living Proof Perfect Hair Day Dry Shampoo
- Kat Von D Saint & Sinner

Overall thoughts: Not one of the Play box's stronger months. I like the mini blender and the bum bum cream, but everything else is pretty meh for me. If Play continues like this, maybe I'll be able to nix this box as well.

Winner for the month: Birchbox, but basically by default because the others were so remarkably unremarkable!